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Member States
The European Union has 27 Member States. These are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
EU countries and the years in which they joined
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1952
Belgium
France
Italy
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
West Germany
1973
Denmark
Ireland
UK
1981
Greece
1986
Portugal
Spain
1990
East Germany
1995
Finland
Sweden
Austria
2004
Cyprus
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Slovakia
Czech Republic
Hungary
2007
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